Well or cistern cleaning machine



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A. M. TAYLOR.

W'BLLOR OISTERN CLEANING MACHINE.

- Patented Oct, 1, 1889.

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ARTHUR M. TAYLOR, OF NILES, MICHIGAN.

WELL OR CISTERN CLEANING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 412,211, dated October 1, 1889. Application filed April 10, 1889- Serial No. 306,737. (No inodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR M. TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Niles, in the county of Berrien and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful \Vell 0r Cistern Cleaning Machine, of which the following is aspecificat-ion.

My invention relates to improvements in Well or cistern cleaning machines, in which a vertical cylinder or receiving-bucket, with avalve in its bottom containing a piston,is operated by side rods; and the objects of my invention are to provide a ready means of cleaning wells or cisterns without removing the water therefrom or going down into them. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichs Figure l. is a detail view, in perspective, showing the machine with the piston down. Fig. 2 is a detail view, in perspective, showing the piston up; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the entire machine.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The piston A works up and down in the receiving-cylinder (l, and is connected with the side rods F F by the piston-rod D and the cross-head E. The side rods F F,when the piston is at the bottom of the cylinder G, extend below the bottom thereof, as shown in Fig. l. The handle 8 is rigidly secured to the top of the cylinder 0 by the rods (I (Z (Z cl.

The machine is lowered into the well or cistern by the handle 8, Fig. when the side rods F F touch the bottom of the well or cistern, by pressing; down upon the handle 8 the side rods F F l o d the piston A stationary while the receiving-cylinder C slides down upon the side rods F F, separating the bot tom of the cylinder C and the piston A, leaving ZhVfLCllllIl'l between them. The outside pressure opens the valve B, through which the mud and dirty water in the bottom of the well or cistern rapidly enters the receivingcylinder 0 as it lowers. W'hen the piston A reaches the top of the cylinderG and the bottom of the cylinder strikes the bottom of the well or cistern, the valve B closes, retaining the' dirty contents within the cylinder, when it may be drawn up and emptied,and the op eration. repeated.

- hat I claim as my invention is- In a cisterncleaner, the combination, with the reeeivingcylinder C, piston A, and valve 13, of the guides at a, rods F, sliding therein, and the cross-head and piston-rod connecting said piston to said rods F, substantially as and for the purposes specified,

ARTHUR M. TAYLOR.

lVitnesses:

J AY Dnnsnonn, G. F. COLE. 

